Diana Rosser Poems

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Sweet sun, shone light, in clear blue sky.
Innocent feet went walking by.
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Push............. glide........... slide............cup
pull back.
Push............. glide........... slide............cup
pull back.
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On the road again
Trav’lling with my friend
Kicking up the surf
Singing the sweet song
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What are these nameless birds
that rise bent wing
on slow thermal winds.
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A path lay beneath trees nestling
soft bare foot wanderings
and the to and fro shhhhh
of the shore.
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Warm sun strokes
cotton clothed limbs
caressing dormant
youth awake
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Siwezi kusema sauti
ya nchi ya kuzaliwa yangu
ingawa hapa wao ni
kuponda katika kifua changu
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Through soft sandy gums
layered deep like teeth
of sharks, mountains rise.
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Red breasted Robin knows why it's digging
through damp grass in the autumnal garden.
It's searching for the worm whose brown marking,
soils the lush lawn beginning to harden.
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I am a free bird in an iron cage
I am a thorn tree grown south of the line
I am a pillar; a vessel for rage
I am a squall when the wind blows fine
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